Study Start-up Specialist, Sponsor-dedicated

1 week ago


Maidenhead, United Kingdom Fortrea Full time

Labcorp Drug Development has supported the pharmaceutical industry in developing more medicines worldwide than any other company, including the top 50 best-selling drugs on the market today. Join us and see why more than 90% of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies are repeat customers

If you are looking to take on responsibility and leverage your know-how in the start-up phase of clinical trials - ensuring a successful start of important clinical studies in the UK -, this is the perfect opportunity. You will be working alongside our dedicated and supportive team of SSU experts and exclusively for one of our renowned international sponsors - in a role that allows you to have a real impact on people’s health and lives.

What we have to offer: a strong international support network, flexible working solutions that facilitate a genuine work-life balance, a highly competitive compensation package and the opportunity to significantly raise your profile in the industry.

This role can be a mix of home-based and Office based, and as such you must be based in the South East of England.

Your tasks:

- Independently manages multiple country, study and site level deliverables during start-up and maintenance both within the client and external business partners and vendors, when required.
- Plans and develops strategy for start-up activities to ensure successful recruitment and delivery to trial milestones
- Prepare Investigator Sites to conduct clinical trials through the review and approval of essential clinical trial and regulatory documents
- Support local regulatory in preparing and performing submissions for Health Authorities including follow up until approval. This includes substantial amendments and any other documentation requiring HA submission.
- Prepare and perform submissions for Ethics Committees including follow up until approval (protocol, amendments/IB and any other documents requiring EC submission).
- Collaborates with other internal roles in country feasibility and site selection.
- Collaborates directly with the client's internal study teams, external site staff, country ethics committees/IRB to ensure tasks and priorities are aligned to the defined study timelines
- Prepare country Informed Consent Form (ICF) and manage country ICF template
- Review and approval of Site ICFs
- Review and approval of Clinical Trial Package (CTP) documentation
- Update national registries as applicable
- Ensures that the electronic Trial Master File (eTMF) contains the relevant Clinical Trial Package (CTP) regulatory documents for site activation and ongoing study management
- When applicable, conduct drug/IMP label review & translation
- Serves as expert on country regulatory requirements and keeps up to date with evolving regulation in collaboration with Regulatory and legal
- May support the collection and distribution of documents from / to sites including obtaining insurance certificates
- May support Health Authority inspection and pre-inspection activities
- May support audit preparation & Corrective Action / Preventative Action preparation for local related issues

**Education**:
- Degree in a relevant field such as pharmacology, life sciences, clinical trial management, (veterinarian) medicine, health care (management), nursing, chemistry, biology, oecotrophology etc.,- In lieu of the above, an equivalent completed vocational education or equivalent professional experience

**Experience**:
- Solid expertise in clinical trials within a CRO or a pharmaceutical company with a specialization in clinical study start up / regulatory processes- Demonstrated understanding of research protocol requirements as well as the ability to communicate them / educate others about them- Proven track record collaborating successfully with operational project teams as well as external investigative sites and local regulatory authorities (including IRBs and IECs)- In-depth experience with submissions to the UK regulatory authorities - observing all local regulations and guidelines as well as international standards such as ICH and GCP- Familiarity with investigator start-up documents and contract / budget negotiation processes with study sites- Autonomous work style with excellent time and project management skills- Business fluency in English - both spoken and written - is a must

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